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For a third and final time Ted Bundy serial killer is convicted

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His third trial was for the sexual assault and strangling to death of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach. She would be his last victim as he was soon recaptured. But he’d only been able to destroy this innocent life after escaping jail for the second time.

He was already under a death sentence when this third trial started and by this point, all vestiges of the smooth, good looking man who had charmed so many to their deaths was gone.

The serial killer was scared...